Acentos tonales y variantes: declarativas en habla formal y espontánea de La Gomera (Islas Canarias)

Abstract

This work has been carried out within the framework of the project Comparative study of intonation and accent in Spanish border areas (FFI2014-52716-P), which is associated to AMPER (Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l'Espace Roman). The objective of this paper is undertaking a phonetic-phonological study of declarative sentences (La Gomera, Canary Islands) uttered in two different speaking styles; i.e. formal and spontaneous. Sentences were analyzed using Matlab sub-routines (López Bobo et al, 2007) to extract F0 values from the syllables' nuclei. The phonetic-phonological tagging follows the rules of the Sp_ToBI system according to the proposal by Dorta ed. (2013). A psycho-acoustic threshold of 1.5 semi-tones (Rietveld y Gussenhoven, 1985; Pamies Bertrán et al., 2002) was used to quantify the importance of tonal variations. Results obtained allow consolidating and broadening the proposal for phonologic tagging in Spanish by Dorta ed. (2013) that distinguishes three mono-tonal and two bi-tonal invariants with their corresponding variants for tonal accents in the study areas considered.

Prosodic distances between different survey sites in Romance-speaking Europe

“…On the other hand, one can observe that Iberian Continental varieties of Catalan and Central Peninsular Spanish are prosodically close, insofar as they both feature rising yes-no questions (see Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto, 2010;Prieto and Roseano, 2018; among others), while the varieties of Spanish spoken in Palencia and on the Canary Islands differ, as they present a rising-falling pattern yes-no questions (Quilis, 1989;Elvira-García, 2020;Fernández Planas et al, 2020;Cabrera Abreu and Vizcaíno Ortega, 2010;Díaz Cabrera and Dorta Luis, 2015;Dorta Luis et al, 2008;Dorta and Hernández, 2004;Alvarellos Pedrero et al, 2011;Dorta Luis and Muñiz Cachón, 2009;Muñiz Cachón et al, 2007;Fernández Planas et al, 2015).…”